Phil's Durham Daze: Ten Years Already?

On September 26, 2003, Nan and I were married. It doesn't seem possible that ten years have gone by. Of course it doesn't seem possible that I'm retired and living in Durham, NC either. But we're here and loving it and each other. We were looking for something special to do to celebrate our tenth and out-of-the-blue Nan's sister and brother-in-law gave us a weekend at their time-share at the Harbour Town Yacht Club on Hilton Head Island, SC.

It was our first time to Hilton Head, and we had a great time. We played tennis every day, went to the beach, ate at some fine restaurants, and Nan took a long bike ride while I played golf at Harbour Town Golf Links. It was the most expensive round of golf I ever played, but in retrospect well worth it. The Heritage Golf Tournament is played on the course and it is beautiful. I played with a father and son from Kentucky, both of whom were pretty good golfers. We were accompanied by a fore caddy(actually I don't know whether it's "four" because he serves the entire foursome or "Fore" because that what he had to shout on most of my drives). The caddy's job was to give us yardage to the green, read our putts, and in my case locate my wayward shots. His name was Spike(which I thought was a nice coincidence as that's my son-in-laws name) and was a "Chatty Caddy", but fun. He helped me relax and appreciate the beautiful seaside course I was playing.